RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing arguments on how the state can comply with an 18-year-old high court order in a high-profile public education adequacy lawsuit.
The case — known as “Leandro” after one of the original plaintiffs — has volleyed about the state court system for almost three decades, a span during which the Supreme Court ruled that the state wasn’t providing an adequate education to public schoolchildren.
The court saga has also yielded a comprehensive remedial plan — the Leandro Plan — that calls for at least $5.6 billion in new, annual education spending by 2028, as well as new school-improvement and accountability policies.
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